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Convicted vs Unconvicted - What's the difference?

convicted | unconvicted |

As a verb convicted

is past tense of convict.

As an adjective unconvicted is

who has not been convicted.

convicted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (convict)

    • convict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To find guilty
  • # as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
  • # informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.

    • Synonyms

    * (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapprove

    Related terms

    * conviction

    Noun

    (wikipedia convict) (en noun)
  • (legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  • A person deported to a penal colony.
  • A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.

    • Synonyms

    * (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonist

    Derived terms

    * con (synonym)

    unconvicted

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Who has not been convicted